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Donnie McClurkin Talks About Fighting Gay Desire
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April 8th, 2009www.blackgaygossip.comCulture, Interviews, Politics

Pastor Donnie McClurkin has spoken very publicly in the past about his struggle with homosexuality and being ~~cured~~ “delivered” from his homosexual ways. So that’s nothing new. What has garnered him new attention is a recent interview with Carrington Lei, wherein McClurkin likens his suppressed homosexuality to battling diabetes. Huh? Exactly!

Now we all know those “ex-gay” camps and ministries are nothing more than a bunch of self-hating gays who got together and decided that because they’re not comfortable in their own skin, they’ll just go ahead and screw with the heads of vulnerable gay and lesbian men and women. We all do know that, right? Ok!

Well, from McClurkin’s interview with Lei, all I got was: 1) McClurkin doesn’t take kindly to parishioners who disagree with his stance on homosexuality, and 2) McClurkin wants some man-loving but is skurred. Hey, that’s just my interpretation.

Check out the interview for yourself:

Now, a part of the reason so many people take issue with you is because you believe that homosexuality is a choice and can be, I’m not sure how to phrase this – is “cured” the right word?
Cured is what they have said in order to make it more villainous or controversial. Most of the things you read that I’ve said, I have not said. There’s always a spin on it, it’s all according to whose telling the story – it’s not good print if it’s not controversial.

I never said that I was cured from anything, I said that I was delivered, and that’s what God does – He delivers.

So, when you say delivered, does that mean that you were delivered from homosexuality – or the ability to act on a same-sex attraction, because there’s a difference.
Is there a difference?

I absolutely believe that there is a difference. You considered yourself gay at one point and now you say that you’re delivered. To me, the term delivered can be pretty ambiguous, depending on how you use it. The difference in saying, “I’m attracted to the same sex, but I’m choosing not to act on my attraction” and not having an attraction at all is vastly different.
Not at all. The bottom line is that it’s all the same. It’s by not choosing to act that the attraction and the appetite starts to abate and wane.

I’m a diabetic now and I don’t eat sugar, but it doesn’t mean that I don’t want sugar. The more I don’t eat the sugar, the more I lose the taste for sugar and the more my diet starts to change permanently – I can’t stand a regular soda now because it’s too much sugar. So, the more I don’t intake the sugar, the more it leaves out of my desire.

I never really thought of it that way, but it makes sense. So, how do gay people who disagree with your position, approach you? Are they angry with you?
There has only been one instance were I had an angry outburst. Seven people came to our church and one young man came up to the alter call and he wanted to become verbal and aggressive while people were up there crying for God. Well, I’m not the traditional guy and my thing was, “If you don’t want God, go back to your seat and sit down and don’t you ever walk up here again with this! Do you think you can stop this? You can’t stop these people from receiving Jesus, so you go and sit down and don’t you open your mouth again until we finish this service!”

Then they wanted to leave and I told them to hold the door and don’t let them go nowhere. You came in here, you’re gonna stay until we finish the service.

Wow, how did that end?
In the ministry that I pastor, God has given me the control there and I’m not gonna let anybody come in and upset what God has done. If you want to talk to me, wait until I finish and say, “Can I have a word with you because I don’t agree with you.” those words alone will peak my interest and I’ll say, “Come on sit down – let’s discuss.”

Sounds like a bunch of b.s., doesn’t it? I would have more respect for the guy if he merely said something along the lines of ‘I struggle with being gay or because of the trauma I suffered at a young age don’t believe I’m gay and no longer engage in homosexual activities,’ instead of spitting all this harmful garbage. Not everyone who is gay was the victim of sexual abuse or molestation and to imply such sends the wrong message.

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28 Responses to “Donnie McClurkin Talks About Fighting Gay Desire”

LuckysJoint April 8th, 2009 at 9:43 am

Wow. I feel a bit sorry for him because I think he obviously believes what he is saying. Is it me or is his attitude in this interview a bit haughty and condescending?

He has the biggest chip on his shoulder. I think it’s the irony of life that he has to say no to sugar. Can’t call him sugar britches now!
M_Boogie April 8th, 2009 at 10:55 am

It’s scary this dude has the influence he has over such a large group of people because he sounds lost. smh.
REG April 8th, 2009 at 11:11 am

I don’t feel sorry for him at all. He’s a guy who’s entitled to his opinion. If being “delivered” or “cured” or whatever the hell it is works for him, who am I to say that he should keep something that he’s found positive in his life to himself. Especially a message as powerful as the grace of God.

As a gay woman, and member of the LBGT community, I don’t feel threatened by Donnie McClurkin’s reality. In fact I love his music.
REG April 8th, 2009 at 11:16 am

The bottom line is that we all live in our own skin and have to come to terms with who we are and aren’t all on our own.

If someone is going to let Donnie McClurkin keep him/her in the closet, he/is is not ready to come out anyway.
Jay April 14th, 2009 at 12:44 pm

Nice headline, but you have no direct quote. He said “he does not eat sugar” which means he made a CHOICE not to eat it. You don’t need him to be gay with you. Would it make you more gay, if he joins you? Would it mean you were born that way, if he says so? He’s not a pediatrician, obstetrician or psychologist who can determine your birth characteristics. Stop the ignorance.

Is your self-esteem that low that you can’t be who you are without someone agreeing with you. Donnie McClurkin is not gay. Clearly you are insensitive to child rape. He’s trying to be nice to you by having a conversation with you. You don’t appreciate that. Someone has really damaged your self-esteem. Nobody’s asking you to be straight. Read his lips. HE HAS BEEN DELIVERED FROM HOMOSEXUALITY. Get over it — and move on!
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PEGGIE June 6th, 2009 at 4:36 pm

I LOVE YOU DONNIE,JESUS DOES TOO.TRY AND GET REAL,COME OUT OF THIS,YOU CAN.YOU ARE HOT,HANDSOME,SEXY BUT FOR A WOMAN.I WOULD MARRY YOU ANY TIME.YOU NEED A WOMAN……A GODLY WOMAN,TRY IT,WHAT YA SAY?
Jackie September 10th, 2009 at 11:04 pm

It is interesting that a person who made the choice of not living a homosexual should face redicule and scorn by you. You may not understand the term “deliverance” or refuse to believe that a person can decide not to participate in a lifestyle based on beliefs they embrace. I applaud Donnie McClurkin, #1 for admitting his weaknesses and being bold enough to declare God’s strength. That’s the beauty of this situation. We may all have some weaknesses or flaws in our lives, but through God’s grace, we are able to overcome them and live a “delivered” life.
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Bizzie November 19th, 2009 at 12:00 pm

He chose not to eat sugar. That doesn’t mean that he’s been “delivered” from diabetes, does it? Check his logic, y’all. Not eating sugar doesn’t make him any less diabetic. That means that not sleeping with men doesn’t make him any less of a homosexual. I don’t even think he realized what he was saying. He threw that metaphor in there to deflect. Lol
Jam876 November 29th, 2009 at 12:17 am

What i get from the comparison to diabetes is that he still has the crave for men but doesn’t act upon it fine but then isn’t it still wrong to lust for the same sex? If in your heart you lust after the same sex and you dont act upon it does God think of that as fornication? I am comparing it to when Jesus said that you should not lust after a woman,that is not your wife, because you have already commited adultery/fornication in your heart. I dont know if he is cured/delivered but i know God can do it but then it leads to the question is faith the size of a mustard seed good enough? Because my faith really is very low right now lol
Alix December 13th, 2009 at 9:16 pm

Strangely the thing that disturbed me the most was when he said, “then they wanted to leave and I told them to hold the door and don’t let them go nowhere.” Um, that’s kidnapping. My other comment is that Bizzie is completely right you’re still a diabetic even if you don’t eat sugar, and you’re still gay if you have a same-sex orientation whether you engage in same-sex sexual activities.
Frank December 17th, 2009 at 8:54 pm

I don’t know why its so hard for people to accept that some people believe that being gay is sinful. There sure are people who believe otherwise and don’t mind telling you so. Gay people can’t any more force me to beieve they were born that ay than a “delivred” person belives they can be delivered from it. I think gay pople have trouble with it because if gays realize they can be delivered then the movement will lose credibility. I know men and women who were gay and who now live free from that lifestyle because they were in fat DELIVERED!!!
dt December 18th, 2009 at 12:07 pm

Keep telling yourself that Frank. There is a reason why sooo many of those ex-gay programs have been PROVEN to have a 90+% failure rate. There is a reason social and hard scientists have found credible evidence to support what we are saying. Whether you like it or not you CANNOT dispute science.

None of us care to prove anything to you because frankly, we don’t have/need to. You have no authority or significance in our lives that we need to prove who we are and the way we WERE born. And unless you spend time in a persons bedroom or spend every waking, and sleeping, minute with a person, unless you can get within their skin, in their mind, you DO NOT know for a FACT they were delivered from being who they are and how they WERE born. I’ve been to church and trust, I can say that with a serious face. People know how to talk a good game and do stunts and shows when they are indoctrinated with fear, ignorance outdated traditions, lack of education, knowledge of science and lack of intelligence. Your welcome and good day.
Anonymous January 25th, 2010 at 12:23 pm

I am not american and i think Donnie McClurkin speaks the truth. What I do not like about ignorant americans is that they are too afraid there is a possibility of change by the Grace of Jesus Christ! They are too afraid to change because it seems as though science makes more sense than Religion, so YAY, as science is right, there is nothing wrong with doing the sin! I only hope americans could only understand that they are doing the wrong thing. I am not saying that I hate homosexuals and lesbiennes but I just hate the fact that they can’t just admit that what they’re doing is wrong
karisbalock February 1st, 2010 at 7:39 am

He’s bee delivered because homosexuality is caused by an evil spirit. God delivered him from this possession that’s what it means
dt February 1st, 2010 at 10:13 am

@anonymous and Karisbalock, you both keep on believing that LIE! I know many who know Donnie behind the scenes and well…he does a LOT behind off the cameras that would make him a hypocrite. Oh yeah, being gay is not a spirit, possession or whatever lie you’d like to tell yourselves. It is a normal part of life. You can find homosexuality in pretty much any other type of species. You guys are just being silly now. Again, you’re very welcome!
Joni February 11th, 2010 at 5:36 pm

First and for most, I don’t agree with how he is spreading his message. Secondly it’s coming off as if God can heal gay folks and sending a message that being gay is wrong. I’m not saying that God can’t change a person, but for what purpose would God change his creation? I believe that God gives us a choice in all matters. I also believe that God made us all different. God is not a God who controls us, but gives us free will. So to say God changes is saying we do not have free will. Now I’m not saying that Gay folks made a choice to be gay, no! I’m saying that there is a choice to act on those desires. But for what purpose should anyone change who they are, just because a group of people don’t believe that it’s not fitting. Let’s us not forget, that is how slavery and hate is spread. That is why wars will never end, because too many of us try to define everyone else in order to feel normal. In other words, “If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.” -Audre Lorde
gd April 24th, 2010 at 10:00 pm

I find these comments and discussions intriguing! The fact that people have the time to sit, analyse and point fingers amaze me.
We all have bones in our closest, some in our past and some we still struggle with. I am sure if all of ours came out none of us would even dare to go on about Donnie.
At least he has the courage to come clean about what he terms his struggles and how he detest such. Maybe we should all try that approach and preoccupy ourselves with improving the things in our lives that we dont like about ourselves as opposed to being self appointed judges who use one yard stick for others and make excuses to justify our own shortcomings, past failures, attitudes etc.
May we all be delivered from hypocrisy!
JoJo66 April 27th, 2010 at 8:57 pm

I am extremely disturbed by Mr. McClurkin recent & past comments on the subject of homosexuality. In his book he leaves the not so subtle suggestion that molestation is synonymous with homosexuality. He obviously has concluded that since his abusers were homosexuals in his mind homosexuals are all potential sex offenders. He has also concluded that his heterosexual nature was superimposed upon by homosexual “vampires” making him a homosexual. Let me say that I understand well the damage & confusion that results from one being raped in childhood. I also understand how sexual orientation evolves & manifest in most people. Being raped at a young age often results in promiscuity, low self esteem,& a variety of emotional upsets but does not change your inborn sexual nature. What most likely happened to Mr. McClurkin is he was taken advantage of by someone who recognized his emerging homosexuality in much the same way some unscupulous older men take advantage of the emerging sexuality of under age girls.
JoJo66 April 27th, 2010 at 9:31 pm

Now Mr. McClurkin is running around foolishly claiming he’s delivered but in the same breath admits he’s still attracted to men & likens it to fiending for sugar. It’s clear this man it emotionally and mentally disturbed & needs to be under the care of a professional. He’s in complete denial & is determined to spend his life running from his sexual nature that has always been present & isn’t going anywhere. In an attempt to further distance himself from his own truth he contiues to throw homosexuals under the bus by refering to us “vampires”. This man has know enough gay people in his 50+ years(I’m guessing) to know gay people are not ALL one thing or another.
JoJo66 April 27th, 2010 at 9:42 pm

Mr. McClurkin knows quite well that there are disgusting, loathesome, evil spirited gay people just as there are gays who are loving & genuinely good people. The fact that he would continue to deliberately misrepresent all gay people tells me he’s in a pathetic state of deep self hate.
n.m May 27th, 2010 at 5:12 am

to all the peopel who replied negatively towards this topic, i just want to remind you that only God has the right to judge, so if you do so then you are takinng over his job, which means that you think he is not good enough to do his jod. Its a pitty because none of you understand the power of GOD and his miricales.they say to know him is to love him, so obviously, you have no clue who GOD is. Being a born again christian is a blessing and his mercy, so i understand why all of you do not have a clue what DONNIE is talking about.As a christian, i only pray that you all recieve the unconditional love of the lord and his everlasting kindness.May he be with you all.Thank you DONNIE for being such an example to all christians.
dt August 4th, 2010 at 5:02 pm

N.M we all know exactly what he is talking about because quite a few of us came from the same of similar backgrounds. Donnie is NOT an example rather he is fooling fools like you. Quite a few of us know for fact that he has not changed a bit rather he has put up a facade to fool gullible people such as yourself. Donnie knows what he is doing, trying to save his bread and butter by throwing people like himself, gay people under the bus. Some of us have been there and done that, but we refuse to live a lie out in public like he has and be true to ourselves. Continute to live in La La Land all you like, that just further shows how unintelligent you are but then again that’s nothing new. Donnie is and will always be one of us, the gay, you just choose not to accept who he is and are stupid enough to ASSume this man has changed when he in fact has not.
KING KID August 8th, 2010 at 1:27 am

YOU ALL ARE IDIOTS, he’s simply stating that he does not act out his feelings and that over time they have deminished. Stupid people say stupid things. SO JUST SHUT UP. Sometimes its good to deny youself somethings what would the world be if we all acted out our deepest desires. Gods helps us regain control over ourselfes. SO DENEY YOUSELF THE PLEASURE OF SAYING OTHER STUPID STUFF
sister of a LGBT August 18th, 2010 at 11:42 pm

Here are my thoughts:

First of all the title of this article and the theme of the “gay supporters” of this article is that he fights a gay “Desire”. I thought being gay was not a “Desire”. I do not have a “Desire” to be hetero, black or a woman. I do want to be rich!

Donnie openly states that he was raped AND molested as a young child, which I feel he believes led to his confusion with his sexuality, which is probably why he now detests homosexuality. I find it disturbing that some people want to identify what may have led him to that path with his “Choice” of being gay rather than it led to his confusion or struggle.

IMO it seems that people debate more about “Why” they are gay then anything else and become offended when other people do not support the opinion of being “born” gay.

@DT homosexuality may be found in other species (so are sick and crippled), but there is a natural reason that it is NOT the dominant culture of ANY species- because it ain’t the norm –and if you want to believe in science, then you have to believe in that fact also.

@JoJo66–BOOOO for implying that he was raped (at age because the pedophile could “sense” his emerging homosexuality-disgusting! How about he was just a pedophile. Like a rapist is just a rapist.
Simplistic August 20th, 2010 at 2:09 pm

sister of a LGBT,

You took the words right out of my mouth. Of all these posts yours is the only one that gets to the point.

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